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This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the coast of Gabon in striking colours.
Gabon, in Equatorial Africa, shares borders with Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Equatorial Guinea, with its coast facing the Gulf of Guinea. Immense forests thrive in the country’s humid tropical climate, covering approximately 88% of Gabon. It is home to some of Africa’s most diverse rainforest and a haven for wildlife, including western lowland gorillas and the critically endangered forest elephants.
The country's hot and humid climate also means that the region is often covered by clouds, making it difficult to acquire optical cloud-free views. This is where Sentinel-2’s instrument, with its 13 spectral channels, is able to help.
This false-colour image was generated using selected near-infrared and short-wave spectral bands to reduce haze and to enhance the variations in vegetation, moisture patterns and land cover with more contrasting colours compared to standard optical imagery.
This combination also shows clouds in varying colours from white to pink, depending on their altitude and on the amount of water droplet or ice particles within them. Water bodies, such as rivers and lakes, appear dark, while densely forested areas come up in orange.
The image clearly illustrates how the country's geography is dominated by forests and by the Ogooué (Ogowe) River, visible running across the centre of the image. It flows westwards through Gabon, collecting water from numerous lakes along its course, before emptying into the Gulf of Guinea, where it forms a large delta.
Other than the water bodies, the image is predominantly orange, representing dense, undisturbed rainforest, with darker orange or brownish tones indicating more humid, low‑lying vegetation typically along the streams and in swampy areas. Yellow and acid‑green patches throughout the image usually denote grasslands or exposed bare soil.
Urban, built-up areas appear in shades of aquamarine. Near the Ogooué River delta lies Port Gentil, Gabon’s second city, located close to Cape Lopez, the nation’s most westerly point, which juts into the Atlantic Ocean. Gabon’s capital Libreville can be seen on the northern shore of the Gabon Estuary, the large inlet visible in the upper part of the image.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025), processed by ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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ESA’s Earth Explorer FLEX, shows off at a media event hosted by Thales Alenia Space in one of their cleanrooms in Cannes, France, in April 2026.
FLEX is designed to yield information about the health of the world’s plants by measuring a faint florescence glow they give off as they photosynthesise. Importantly, the signal, which is invisible to the naked eye, varies according to environmental conditions and the health of the plant – and, therefore, when measured, can be used to assess plant health and stress.
The information gathered by FLEX can be used to improve our understanding of how carbon moves between plants and the atmosphere and how photosynthesis affects the carbon and water cycles. The mission also offers better insight into plant health, which is especially important since Earth’s growing population is placing increasing demands on the production of food and animal feed.
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Credits: ESA - P. Sebirot
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This picture was published on social media by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot with the following caption:
Day 062, orbit 0963 — Did you know we get 16 sunrises and sunsets every day as we orbit Earth? They come and go quickly, but the colours are so intense! This dramatic, billowing cloud, captured at sunset, stood out with its incredible shades of orange. Nature is definitely an artist.
Follow Sophie’s mission on the εpsilon page and on her social media platforms, such as X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.
Credits: NASA/ESA – S. Adenot
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Three Earth observation satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana.
Here, ESA’s Fluorescence Earth Explorer satellite, known as FLEX, is on show at a media event hosted by Thales Alenia Space at their cleanrooms in Cannes, France. FLEX is an innovative Earth Explorer mission developed by ESA’s FutureEO programme in conjunction with the science community. FLEX is designed to measure and map the health of plants from space by detecting the fluorescent signal emitted by vegetation.
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Credits: ESA - P. Sebirot
europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
ESA’s Earth Explorer FLEX, shows off at a media event hosted by Thales Alenia Space in one of their cleanrooms in Cannes, France, in April 2026.
FLEX is designed to yield information about the health of the world’s plants by measuring a faint florescence glow they give off as they photosynthesise. Importantly, the signal, which is invisible to the naked eye, varies according to environmental conditions and the health of the plant – and, therefore, when measured, can be used to assess plant health and stress.
The information gathered by FLEX can be used to improve our understanding of how carbon moves between plants and the atmosphere and how photosynthesis affects the carbon and water cycles. The mission also offers better insight into plant health, which is especially important since Earth’s growing population is placing increasing demands on the production of food and animal feed.
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Credits: ESA - P. Sebirot
Als FTM-figuur Eric Smit (die gelijk had over Wijers, red.) érgens niet tegen kan, dan is het wel dingen die niet helemaal zuiver zijn, versneden, zeg maar. Daarom zul je hem ook nooit iets zien kopen waarvan hij niet helemaal zeker weet wie ervan profiteert, en daarom zit hij op LinkedIn te zeiken dat Rutger Bregman iets over OpenAI vindt (grappig wel, aangezien Bregman zelf zijn tenenkrommende tekstjes door AI laat """nakijken""") maar nog wel actief is op het kwaadaardige platform X. En dat zegt Smit dus op LinkedIn, het platform waar je ook een hoop over kunt vinden, namelijk vooral dat het het afschuwelijkste platform ooit is, waar volkomen overbodige hbo+'ers elkaar van het werk houden door op te scheppen over wat voor fantastische dingen ze nou weer op hun werk hebben gedaan of, nog erger, wat ze nou weer voor verschrikkelijks hebben meegemaakt in hun privéleven en hoe jij daar lessen uit kunt trekken voor de customer journey van een bestelsite voor wc-papier. Tegenwoordig kun je LinkedIn bijna niet meer openen of je ziet een door AI gegenereerde post over hoe je AI moet inzetten bij het verwisselen van een autoband of anders een inspirerend verhaal over iemand die er in een modderbad in Zuid-Tibet achterkwam dat ze zich niet meer als accountant maar als controller identificeert. Er zijn snuffvideo's uit Bangladesh waar je minder pijn aan je ogen van krijgt dan van een gemiddelde LinkedInpost. Wist u dat voor iedere LinkedIn-zoekopdracht er drie kinderen in Afrika 600 meter extra naar een waterput moeten lopen? Nou, wij wisten dat ook niet want we hebben het net verzonnen, maar als het waar zou zijn zou er vast wel weer een of andere wijsneus op LinkedIn er een inspirerende draai aan geven. LinkedIn hee. Als de mensheid ergens kapot aan gaat dan is het niet aan malaria, of aan 15% korting op leuke kleren die ons door de moraalmaffia van Jan Slagter door de neus is geboord, maar aan LinkedIn. Rot op met je LinkedIn man. Waar ging dit ook alweer over. O ja. Eric Smit. Boos op Rutger Bregman. Wie heeft gelijk. Alsof je moet kiezen tussen een schroevendraaier in je pisbuis of een brandende fakkel in je naad. We hopen hartgrondig dat iedereen die aan deze discussie deelneemt verliest. Maar goed. Reaguren kan hieronder. Of op X. Maar alstublieft NIET op LinkedIn.
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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet wil een subsidie in het leven roepen om mensen met een laag inkomen of middeninkomen te helpen bij de aanschaf van een elektrische auto, bevestigen bronnen na berichtgeving door RTL Nieuws. Daarvoor zouden zij dan hun brandstofauto moeten inruilen. Er zou 50 miljoen euro voor worden uitgetrokken.
Ook zouden bedrijven meer ruimte krijgen om groene investeringen te doen. De belastingkorting daarvoor zou van 40 naar 45 procent gaan.
De maatregelen maken onderdeel uit van het pakket energiemaatregelen dat het kabinet maandag presenteert. Dit weekend overleggen de ministers nog met verschillende oppositiepartijen, aangezien de coalitie van D66, VVD en CDA geen meerderheid heeft in de Tweede Kamer. Exacte bedragen kunnen daardoor nog veranderen, benadrukken ingewijden.
Het kabinet wil ook de onbelaste kilometervergoeding verhogen en een noodfonds voor de energierekening vullen. Bronnen zeiden tegen het ANP dat het kabinet waarschijnlijk minder dan 1 miljard euro voor het pakket uittrekt.
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32GB in size, the only options were exFAT or NTFS. Neither option was well supported on other platforms at first, although exFAT support is fairly widespread now. In their latest blog post, Microsoft announced that the limit for FAT32 partitions is being increased to 2TB. Of course, that doesn't mean that every device that supports FAT32 will work flawlessly with a 2TB partition size, but at least there is a decent chance that older devices with don't support exFAT will now be usable with memory cards over 32GB.
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